Job Title: Legal Counsel
Hiring Organization: Tatu
City
Location – Locality: Nairobi
Location – Region: Kenya
Industry: Urban
Land Developer
Job Type: Full
Time
Salary: KES
Date Posted: 05/01/2024
In this
role, you will provide general legal advice and strategic counsel within a
broad scope of areas within the organization. The primary focus of this
position will be on infrastructure and construction contracts, which will
include advising on, drafting and negotiating infrastructure and construction
contracts. Your responsibilities will, however, not be limited to
infrastructure and construction contracts but could include real estate.
Specific responsibilities:
- Drafting,
negotiating and advising on legal agreements across the Rendeavour Group’s
businesses in relation to construction and infrastructure development;
- Transitioning
deals from sales and registration of leases to the delivery and utility
teams for compliance with infrastructure and utility provision
requirements;
- Review,
optimization and synchronization of all legal agreements used across the
Group;
- Consistently
complete tasks in accordance with agreed deadlines and to the highest
quality standard, meeting or exceeding expectations of internal and
external stakeholders;
- Creation
of a library of legal templates for use across the Rendeavour Group and
scanning and saving all transaction documents, as well as key
correspondence in respect of completed transactions on the document
management system;
- Review
and rationalization of the use of external legal advice across the
Rendeavour Group’s East African businesses;
- Embrace
accountability, humility and commitment to Rendeavour’s business goals;
- Support
the in-house legal team in additional advisory and support tasks;
- Drafting,
reviewing and optimising internal guidelines and policies;
- Advise
on legal and risk issues affecting the Rendeavour Group’s business;
- Conduct
and commission research and analysis of specific legal questions and
preparation of information memoranda, opinions and position papers;
- Managing
external legal counsel offering legal services to the Rendeavour Group and
compiling reports on matters handled by the external legal counsel;
- Deal
with complex, significant matters that cut across legal and related areas
and
- Monitoring
Kenyan legislation and advising the Rendeavour Group of companies on the
impact of existing and newly enacted legislation on its businesses.
- Requirements
Hard
skills and experience:
- Over
4 years’ post-qualification experience as an Advocate of the High Court of
Kenya.
- Strong
technical ability in infrastructure and construction law and real
estate/property law.
- Track
record of working on complex infrastructure and construction contracts.
- Compliant
and in possession of the current practising certificate.
- Very
strong drafting skills.
- Previous
exposure to emerging or frontier markets.
How To
Apply
If
qualified and interested, please send your CV and cover letter to LCounsel@tatucity.com by
15- May 2024. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.